Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kitty Hawk, famed first "aeroplane" of the Wright Brothers, might end up in the Smithsonian Institution after all. Twenty years ago, in a huff at the Smithsonian, Inventor Orville Wright gave the Kitty Hawk to London's Science Museum. Last week Wright's executors dug up a 1943 letter telling the British that he wanted it back. Any time, said the British...
...Harriet Hawk of Tulsa won the Sooner State Business and Professional Women's Club purse-cramming championship by pulling 218 separate articles out of her handbag. Her prize: a flashlight to facilitate future purse-mining...
That cold December day in 1903, a gusty north wind was blowing across the sand dunes of North Carolina's coast. The wind blew sand into the eyes of Wilbur and Orville Wright as they moved their awkward flying machine out of its shed at Kitty Hawk. Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose...
...been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground. The bureau suggested Kitty Hawk...
...three years, they battled Kitty Hawk's mosquitoes and sandfleas and flew their gliders off a high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...